In the anti-corruption drama "In the Name of the People", the corrupt official Zhao Dehan's private possession of cash is enough to build a wall is impressive.
In reality, there have been new developments in the case of Zhao Dehan's prototype, "Director of 100 million yuan" Wei Pengyuan, who accepted bribes and whose sources of huge wealth are unknown.
The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) noticed that the relevant execution ruling issued by China Judgment Documents Network recently showed that Wei Pengyuan is currently serving his sentence in Baoding Prison, Hebei Province.
The Baoding Intermediate People's Court (hereinafter referred to as the Baoding Intermediate People's Court) has recovered approximately 128 million yuan in the case of Wei Pengyuan's crimes of accepting bribes and the crime of a huge amount of unidentified property. At present, the property that can be disposed of in this case has been recovered.
In addition, according to the information disclosed earlier in the relevant execution ruling of China Judgment Document Network, Wei Pengyuan once lived with Chang, a "post-80s" woman, and had three children.
During the court's recovery of Wei Pengyuan's related property involved in the case, Chang had objected, requesting to keep part of the alimony and one of the properties for his children to use and live in.
The request was rejected by the court.
More than 200 million cash in the family, the money counter burned out on the spot
Wei Pengyuan, male, Han nationality, was born in Jinxi County, Liaoning Province in November 1959. After graduating from Liaoning Fuxin Mining Institute (the predecessor of Liaoning Technical University) in 1982, he was assigned to work in the Planning and Design Institute of the Ministry of Coal Industry.
According to a CCTV news report, Wei Pengyuan has not left the coal industry during his 32-year career, step by step from the chief officer of the Coal Division of the Ministry of Coal to the deputy director and director.
In August 2008, the National Energy Administration was established and Wei Pengyuan was appointed as the Deputy Director of the Coal Department (Director-level).
In 2014, Wei Pengyuan became a model of "small officials and huge corruption" and entered the public eye.
According to China News Weekly, CCTV News and other media reports, in April 2014, under the direct command of the Supreme Prosecutor, the Wei Pengyuan task force came to the National Energy Administration and exercised control over Wei.
The task force found a large amount of cash when inspecting a house in Wei Pengyuan.
According to the report, the task force coordinated more than a dozen staff members of the Baoding Branch of Bank of China and five banknote counters to participate in the count in two batches. After 14 hours of continuous work, a total of 134.8 million yuan in cash and 819.55 euros in cash were counted. Ten thousand yuan, US$3.8249 million, Hong Kong dollar 1.89 million, and British pound 16,000. According to the central exchange rate of the day, the cash collected was equivalent to more than 200 million yuan.
Due to uninterrupted work for a long time, one of the money counters was burned out on the spot.
According to Xinhua News Agency, on December 29, 2015, the Baoding Intermediate People's Court held a public trial in the first instance of Wei Pengyuan's case of accepting bribes and a huge amount of property from unknown sources.
The Baoding People’s Procuratorate charged: Defendant Wei Pengyuan served as deputy director of the Coal Division of the Basic Industry Development Department of the National Development Planning Commission, investigator of the Kerosene Division, director of the Coal Division of the Energy Bureau of the National Development and Reform Commission, and National Development Planning Commission from 2000 to 2014. During his duties as the Deputy Director of the Coal Department of the Energy Administration, he used the powers of supervisor, responsibility, and undertaking of coal projects to conduct coal project review, shareholder change, expert review, upgrading and reformation, safety reformation, and coal enterprise contracting projects, as well as when demanding payment, Selling equipment and other aspects to seek benefits for others, illegally accepting trustees RMB 103,471,500, euros 7.751 million, USD 2.352 million, HKD 400,000, 4100 grams of gold, 3 cars, 1 set of real estate, bank cards, shopping cards , Calligraphy and paintings and other property, a total of more than 211.7 million yuan, and a total of more than 131.09 million yuan in property can not explain the source, they should be investigated for criminal responsibility for the crime of bribery and the crime of huge amounts of property with unknown sources.
According to the prosecution’s allegations, Wei Pengyuan’s property involved in the case reached 340 million.
China News Weekly once quoted a vivid metaphor-if you spread it out with hundred yuan bills, 340 million can pave five and a half standard football fields.
On October 17, 2016, the Baoding Intermediate People's Court publicly pronounced that defendant Wei Pengyuan was sentenced to death for accepting bribes, suspended for two years, deprived of political rights for life, and sentenced to confiscation of all personal property, and his death sentence was suspended for two years at the expiry of the law. After being reduced to life imprisonment, life imprisonment without commutation or parole; sentenced to ten years imprisonment for the crime of a huge amount of property with unknown sources, decided to execute the death sentence, suspended for two years, deprived of political rights for life, and sentenced to confiscation of all personal property, before the death penalty After the expiration of the two-year suspension of execution is reduced to life imprisonment in accordance with the law, life imprisonment shall not be commutation or parole.
The property obtained by Wei Pengyuan from bribery and property from unknown sources shall be recovered and turned over to the state treasury.
Request to keep child support and a property rejected
The Paper learned that after Wei Pengyuan was sentenced to a suspended death sentence in the first instance, when the Baoding Intermediate People's Court recovered the relevant property involved in the case, Chang and others, who were outside the case, raised objections to the execution.
An execution ruling issued by the China Judgment Document Network in December 2019 with the number "(2019) Ji 06 Zhiyi No. 222" shows that Chang is a woman born in 1986, who lives with Wei Pengyuan and has children. 3 children.
The youngest child was born in February 2014, two months before Wei Pengyuan was investigated.
According to the information in the above ruling, Chang and others requested Baoding Intermediate People's Court to suspend the auction procedure for two properties in Chaoyang District, Beijing. After confirming the applicant's property in accordance with the law, the applicant will be refunded (or discounted) in proportion to the auction price. Chang and others All legal property.
Chang stated that in the course of the court's execution of Wei Pengyuan's property involved in the case, one of the properties contained the applicant's investment by Chang, and part of the rights and interests belonged to the applicant.
Therefore, the court was requested to suspend the execution and divest the claimant's ownership of the real estate involved in the case.
She also requested that Wei Pengyuan’s three minor children’s expenses should be kept in the confiscated property according to law, totaling 133,5946.6 yuan (calculated based on the average salary of full-caliber urban employees in Beijing in 2018), and also requested that Chaoyang be retained. A real estate in the district allows innocent children to live in.
In this regard, the Baoding Intermediate People's Court stated that some of the property interests claimed by persons outside the case against a property and parking space in Chaoyang District are related to the criminal judgment of Wei Pengyuan in the first instance. It is not within the scope of the enforcement objection and should be resolved through other procedures.
The outsider's claim to keep another property for his children to live in is contrary to the law, and the court does not support it.
Regarding the issue of child support, the Baoding Intermediate People's Court pointed out that the parent or mother who did not live with minor children should bear the corresponding child support, but the court's enforcement is to seize, seize, and freeze the bribery property, Cases where property and fruits of unknown origin are turned over to the state treasury.
In such cases, keeping the child's child support does not comply with the relevant provisions of the law, and those outside the case should directly claim the support to Wei Pengyuan.
The objection request of Chang and others was rejected.
On September 27, 2020, the China Judgment Document Network issued an execution ruling numbered "(2017) Ji 06 Zhi 215 No. 26".
The ruling was made by Baoding Intermediate People's Court in July 2020.
According to the above ruling, Baoding Intermediate People's Court filed a case on August 24, 2017 to enforce Wei Pengyuan's related assets.
During the execution process, the court detained the bank deposit of Wei Pengyuan, the person subject to execution, of 128,576.84 yuan.
Nine sets of real estate, four parking spaces and five cars were auctioned.
After the first auction, the second auction, and the sale procedures, there are still two properties, four parking spaces, and one car that have not been sold. The total amount of the above-mentioned property auctioned is 128,149,201 yuan.
In this case, a total of 128,277,777.84 yuan was recovered for Wei Pengyuan's crime of accepting bribes and the crime of a huge amount of property with unknown sources. All the funds have been turned over to the Baoding Finance Bureau.
The ruling also mentioned that the gold, jade, wine, handicrafts, commemorative medals and other items involved in the case were stored in the investigative agency and had not been handed over and did not meet the conditions for disposal.
The above property could not be disposed of.
The court has restricted consumption of Wei Pengyuan, the defendant.
The Baoding Intermediate People's Court stated that because the property that can be disposed of in this case has been recovered, other properties are not yet eligible for disposal.
Terminate this execution procedure in accordance with relevant regulations.
After the property involved in the case was handed over and the conditions for disposal were met, the case was resumed.
Cheng Zhen, senior reporter of The Paper